from bexhill to brighton, diverting via beachy head because the sky was so very bright
astonished to find the cliff edge between beachy head and houns-tout was teeming with hundreds of migrating house martins
even more astonished to see, for the first time and probably the only time, an all-white one; absolutely white as far as i could tell in the brief two or three seconds of focussed perception
hoping to catch him or her on camera, i just held it at arms length and scanned the cliff edge for a second glimpse, with my eyes wide open
i was lucky, but the image you see is just a much enlarged detail in the wider scene
i had a third glimpse but the wings were folded back and the image too non-descript
later, making good of some spare time, i took an unscheduled diversion to see the marvellous brick railway viaduct at borde hill near balcombe, on the london to brighton line
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